[R-SIG-Finance] recommended books

[Gabor Grothendieck]

83 R books and comments are here:
http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Stefan Janse van
Rensburg<sjansevanrensburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I apologise for the fact that this is somewhat off topic, but I wanted
> to know if the list could recommend some good books on R. My colleague
> is new to both statistics and R and I would like to get him something
> to ease the "steep"-learning curve. His knowledge of statistics is
> quite limited, but being a PHD in applied maths I do not want to get
> anything that will insult his intelligence.
>
> Is Modern Applied Statistics with S still a good bet? I used it a few
> years back and thought it was an excellent guide. I was, however,
> already proficient with R and I'm not sure how good it would be for a
> novice. Also, our work is mostly concerned with econometrics / time
> series.
>
> Apart from that, I am personally in need of a book covering state
> space methods in time series analysis, possibly with applications
> covering dynamic latent factor models. My preference would be for an
> applied type book, especially one using R.
>
> Any and all comments are welcome.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Stefan Janse van Rensburg
>
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